The controversial trade deal being negotiated between the EU and the US could spell disaster for European farming, finds a new report from Friends of the Earth Europe. The report ‘Trading away EU farmers’ reviews modelling studies carried out in the EU and US on the impacts of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership …
Investment Court System put to the test: new EU proposal will perpetuate investors’ attacks on health and environment
This report shows that dangerous attacks against regulations protecting the public interest and the environment would not be prevented by the European Commission’s new investment protection proposals for future trade agreements. Developed by Friends of the Earth Europe, Transnational Institute, Corporate Europe Observatory, the Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung, and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, …
New EU investment proposal won’t prevent corporate attacks
Dangerous attacks against regulations protecting the public interest and the environment would not be prevented by the European Commission’s new investment protection proposals for future trade agreements, according to a new report. Developed by Friends of the Earth Europe, Transnational Institute, Corporate Europe Observatory, the Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung, and the Canadian Centre for Policy …
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TransCanada’s $15 billion and dangers of trade deal
Special privileges for corporations in major trade deals are a serious threat to democracy and the environment according to a new report released today by Friends of the Earth Europe, Sierra Club and Transport & Environment (T&E), as EU-US trade talks resume in Brussels. The TransCanada Corporation are using investor privileges in the North American …
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TTIP: judges question legality of investor rights proposal
Germany’s largest association of judges and public prosecutors yesterday publicly criticised the European Commission’s Investment Court System, a set of reforms to replace the Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism in the EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The judges are questioning the legal basis of such system, as well as the need for …
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We are fed up: 23,000 march in Berlin
Over 23,000 people marched in Berlin this Saturday under the banner ‘We Are Fed Up!’ The march, organised by a broad coalition of organisations including Friends of the Earth Germany, Young Friends of the Earth, and allies working on issues from farming, to beekeeping, nature, animal rights, development and consumer interests, called for organic farming, …